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See, I don’t mind vegetables after all.

( Praise )

Thanks, USDA!Frozen french fries are now considered “fresh vegetables.” Right on! Now we need a way to get ice cream considered a leafy green vegetable — and I’m not talking about spinach ice cream either.

Will they go away now?

( Rants )

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are jailbait no more. Time for Chet to move on to Hillary Duff. (Lindsay Lohan turns 18 on July 2, so there’s no point there.)
Here’s hoping the twins do something very outrageous, which they won’t. While I’ve hated them since day 1 — appearing on Full House as a child is […]

Tornado pics

Here’s the photos that Miah took with the digital camera.
On the way to the activity . . .
Rainbows

Damage (tree shear) at K-15, two miles north of Grandpa’s house. Lack of pictures due to chaos and phone tag between me, Miah, Mom, and Grandpa.
Miah’s disappointed that he was in the thick of such excellent storming […]

Tornado update

My grandparents moved out to their farm in 1982. Ever since I can remember, the Lucky 7 Stables has been my landmark. Tonight the stables got hit by a tornado — the house is destroyed. All the people are fine; I think the horses are okay too. Don’t know for sure. Grandpa’s just fine — […]

For Josh, who doesn’t care

( Rants )

From the Washington Post: “Maybe Kerry should target the Shakespeare students and leave the computer nerds to Bush. More than 70 percent of humanities majors said politics was relevant to their daily lives, compared with 36 percent of computer science students. ”
So, Mr. Computer Sci, I’m sorry you’re in the 36% who “doesn’t give a […]